Most histories
of mathematics devote only a few pages to Ancient Egypt and to
northern Africa during the 'Middle Ages´. Generally
they ignore the history of mathematics in Africa south of the
Sahara and give the impression that this history either did not
exist or, at least, is not knowable, traceable, or, stronger
still, that there was no mathematics at all south of the Sahara.
In history, to Europeans, even the Africanity of Egyptian
mathematics is often denied or suffers eurocentric views of conceptions
of both 'history' and of 'mathematics' form the basis of such
views. Contrary to the popular view, one can neither racially
or geographically separate Egyptian civilization from its black
African roots.